Last week, we learned that the Xbox One Scorpio devkit has a screen on the front panel that displays the FPS of the game that is currently running. One can imagine it helps developers know if their game is constantly running at a smooth 60 FPS or if they need to do some work to get it to where it needs to be. Some people mocked it because it seems kinda useless for a machine to just constantly have a screen that says "60 FPS" on it. Turns out, it has some other just as useless purposes!
Windows Central's Jez Corden tweeted out a video showing a clip of just what else the display screen can show off. Turns out it can show dolphins… yeah. So if developers just want to see virtual dolphins casually swimming around on their Xbox, they can turn on that feature. You can view a clip of the feature below.
Scorpio XDK front panel does way more than just FPS count. Fully programmable. Watch dolphins on the back screen, etc. Really cool stuff. pic.twitter.com/AaV63fq9qr
— Jez (not a mimic) (@JezCorden) May 13, 2017
Corden makes it sound as if the screen can be programmed to show a variety of things other than just dolphins but it's unclear what benefits that would have for developers.
Project Scorpio is set to have a big reveal at Microsoft's E3 show this June. Hopefully, we'll get pricing details, a real name, and an in-depth look at what benefits the console has to offer! Check back to GameZone during E3 week where we'll have all the latest news on Scorpio.
